SOME AGENTS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.

Russia’s Federal SecurityService is less democratic than the KGB–at least during meal times,Moskovsky komsomolets reported May 17. While the old KGB had only atwo-tier system of dining rooms–one for the very top elite and one foreveryone else–the new Federal Security Service has four differentdining rooms. They include one for low-level operatives, a second fordivision chiefs and their deputies, a third for the deputy chiefs ofadministrations and unattached generals, and a fourth for the director,his deputies, and the chiefs of major administrations. The first threeserve the same food but on progressively better china; the fourthserves better food.Copyright (c) 1995 The Jamestown Foundation

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